The UnBEARable Whiteness I’m Seeing: Yellowstone 11
As I sat in my van on the edge of Yellowstone Lake, with white-out conditions blanketing the park with snow, I was kinda bummed out. My ongoing quest to see definitive signs of the caldera was being thwarted. Already that morning, I had to bypass without seeing one of the area’s most famous sites: The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. The road to Canyon’s prime viewing sites had not yet been snow plowed, and even then, visibility was down to dozens of feet. I looked out on the water and could not see the other shore.
Then… the sun came out.
Enjoy Part Eleven of the Tour d’Joko – Yellowstone Edition.
Some video notes:
Okay, who out there caught the play-on-words of this episode’s title “The UnBEARable Whiteness I’m Seeing”? What am I referencing?
Fallen timber can be quite slippery when covered with fresh snow. I really fell hard on my hike; I’m lucky nothing broke.
Looking back, I really had an itchy trigger finger when it came to my borrowed bottle of bear spray. Almost used it on a particularly scary looking squirrel.
Honey badger don’t care? Bison! Now Bison, he don’t care!
Ya know Grizzlies can and do Hunt people. Not sure I would want to see one up close and personal.
I have seen a Black Bear Hiking the Smokies. I was with other Hikers, so the Black Bear found discretion the better part of valor. Not sure I would have been so confident on my own.
I did once stop on Hwy 90 outside of Mammoth Cave NP to p. And there I was peeing on a guardrail when I heard a wild cat yowl. It was up close and personal. I pee’ed all over myself getting back in the car.
Anyway, I admire your bravery.
Kundera’s ‘Unbearable Lightness Of Being’? I will stretch, then. Kundera probably was a fan of Jean Paul Sartre’s ‘Being And Nothingness’, (thus his title) and Sartre expounded on the niche of absurdity, on the subject of existentialism. You are a deep thinker and saw the paralell of the absurdity of Kundera’s novel about the beauty of art set in the background of the infidelity of Tomas on his photographer wife Tereza and the communist Russia invasion and occupation, and the absurdity of the federal government allowing dangerous critters and taxpayers occupy the same space at the same time?
But that’s absurd! 😛
I did say I would stretch!
opppsss 2008 prices ohhhh lolol yea but still……. :groovy: